Nintendo DS is ready for Homebrewing

[Mog_the_Destroyer]

Found this article at Slashdot about someone making homebrew games for the Nintendo DS. Just thought I'd share to the masses that might care.

http://www.bottledlight.com/ds/

The sad thing is the system needs all the games it can get.

[rbudrick]

This is great news indeed. I can't wait to see more homebrew stuff come out. It would be cool to test homebrew demos and such on a flash card, but unfortunately, no one has made any commercially available yet. Anyone heard word on this yet?

-Rob

[Jive3D]

The only way to do it is with a passthrough device. The current one that I know about is called 'passme' - pretty much it goes like this - Passme is similar in look and interface to say, an adaptor that you would use to play a japanese famicom cart on a nes. Think of it like that, but used for the DS-Card slot. You plug your DS game card into the 'passme' and then plug the 'passme' into the DS Card slot. It gets the BIOS from the DS-Card, but then lets you execute code From a GBA Flash Cart at the same time, the whole point is that it lets you execute the data on the GBA Cart in DS Mode. More can be found @ www.themodgods.com. I'm no whizz at this stuff, just passing on what I hace read.

[Mog_the_Destroyer]

http://darkfader.net/ds/

http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/tetrisds.shtml

Here are a couple more links on homebrewing the DS. Thats exactly what they are using the Passme device.

[rbudrick]

http://www.dspassme.com/

Thanks! I found that link with your info....it's not clear when these might see production...looks like the only game that seems to boot it right now is the Metroid Hunters demo. I wonder if there are any certain limitations as to what code/games can operate using this.

Anyway, sorry to threadjack...

-Rob

[Mog_the_Destroyer]

I'm looking for any, I mean any, games for the DS that don't suck and if they are homebrewed then thats cool by me. I'm starting to wonder why I bought the system to begin with. (Well not really I want all systems) I know this thread has been tackled before but there are no good games on the DS other then Mario 64, Wario Ware, and Yoshi. I want games for this system that don't suck. If letting other people know about hacking the DS to make their own games then so be it I want those games. I'm not kidding anyone that I even know how to make a game for a system but I know what i like to play and I like the concept of the DS. I just hope people are reading this and are interested and are wanting to be able to make their own games for a new system. I hate seeing a good system go down the drain. Ahh my Dreamcast what lovely memories, lol.

[rbudrick]

Feel the Magic rocks the house, dude! Check it out!

Mucho replay value, w/ so many levels and difficulties.

-Rob